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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 5192f96ad8df110002000002

Words in parens

We should all ace this, right?

Start file

one two
three

End file

(one) (two)
(three)

View Diff

1,2c1,2
< one two
< three
---
> (one) (two)
> (three)

Solutions

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3971 active golfers, 12975 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#2641 - Moritz Schüpp / @moritzschuepp

01/20/2015 at 11:10AM

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#2642 - Andrey / @andreyrmg

01/20/2015 at 12:14PM

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#2643 - Gregory Newman / @bozoslivehere

01/23/2015 at 03:53AM

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#2644 - 裏連 / @uraren_bot

02/02/2015 at 07:58AM

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#2645 - 哆啦比猫 / @cjxgm2

02/13/2015 at 12:49PM

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#2646 - Maiz Lulkin / @joaomilho

02/15/2015 at 01:00PM

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#2647 - YK / @Dongas420

03/01/2015 at 02:11AM

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#2648 - Deepak Surti / @dmsurti

03/12/2015 at 01:21PM

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#2649 - el R / @el_r

03/14/2015 at 10:31PM

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#2650 - Mart Birnbaum / @grinningc

03/19/2015 at 11:18AM

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#2651 - Kamil Laskowski / @laskowskikamil

03/19/2015 at 08:52PM

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#2652 - David Orr / @dorr91

03/23/2015 at 05:53PM

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#2653 - ɐʇnɥsɐpoʇ / @todashuta

03/25/2015 at 09:30AM

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#2654 - Raj / @brshenoy

04/02/2015 at 10:01PM

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#2655 - talineo / @talineo_

04/10/2015 at 10:33PM

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#2656 - Rathrio / @Rathrio

04/29/2015 at 04:40PM

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#2657 - Alex Bartol / @alexbartol

05/07/2015 at 05:32PM

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#2658 - luffy / @raxcoi

05/13/2015 at 07:51PM

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#2659 - Hervé Rouault / @hrouault

06/09/2015 at 06:17PM

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#2660 - Cakejoke / @Cakejoke

07/05/2015 at 02:53PM

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#2661 - CoCo Loco / @lc2817

08/02/2015 at 09:54AM

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#2662 - Blake Tereau / @BlakeTereau

08/11/2015 at 02:57AM

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#2663 - Jinzhou Zhang / @jinzhouz

09/02/2015 at 09:51AM

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#2664 - Andrew D. Wong / @andrewdwong

09/02/2015 at 03:13PM

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#2665 - Tamas Gal (Tom) / @tamasgal

09/13/2015 at 07:01PM

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#2666 - Dima / @diarworld

09/30/2015 at 03:50PM

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#2667 - Darren Tsung / @darrentsung

10/02/2015 at 09:22PM

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#2668 - Phil Ting / @philipjting

11/15/2015 at 06:12AM

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#2669 - Julian / @JulianGindi

02/27/2016 at 08:26PM

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#2670 - Chenut Ludovic / @7Brwa7

03/31/2016 at 08:22PM